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• I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

  Frederic Joliot-Curie

  Science, Important, Window

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• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Eye, Winter, Science

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

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• Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on which experiments can be made should be taken as qualities of all bodies universally.

  Isaac Newton

  Taken, Science, Quality

  Isaac Newton (1999). “The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, p.795, Univ of California Press

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• Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

  John Dewey

  Science, Giving, Curiosity

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Joe R. Burnett (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1899-1901”, p.145, SIU Press

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• You all have learned reliance
  On the sacred teachings of Science,
  So I hope, through life, you will never decline
  In spite of philistine Defiance
  To do what all good scientists do.
  Experiment.
  Make it your motto day and night.
  Experiment.
  And it will lead you to the light.

  Cole Porter

  Teaching, Learning, Science

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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• You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Sorry, Science, Labs

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• Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sick, Religion, Atheism

  "Connect The World" with Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

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• No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Interesting, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Religious, Atheism, Charity

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• How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Spring, Flower

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• When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Business, Thinking, Power

  "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People"". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

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• Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the liberal mind. And it must always become more and more so: for though it is only of late, that it has been looked upon in that light, the great progress already made in Chymical knowledge, gives us a pleasant prospect of rich additions to it. The Science is now studied on solid and rational grounds. While our knowledge is imperfect, it is apt to run into error: but Experiment is the thread that will lead us out of the labyrinth.

  Joseph Black

  Running, Art, Science

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• We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Science, Quality

  Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.226

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• While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  School, Responsibility, People

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• The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Song, Drinking, Astronomy

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• Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than in more differentiated forms of life, and they can in addition afford to occupy more precarious positions in natural economy than larger organisms with more exacting requirements.

  Marjory Stephenson

  Science, Growth, Variation

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• My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Simple, Average

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• Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Knowledge, Science, Views

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.208, University of Chicago Press

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• You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Science, Technology

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

  Isaac Stern

  Failure, Experience, Grows

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• I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted to Asian women. I've been attracted to various subspecies of women. I can say with gratitude that I've been able to experiment.

  Oliver Stone

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Gratitude

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• Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Prayer, Philosophical, Religion

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Men, Indulge In

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

  David Parnas

  Mean Girls, Humorous, Science

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• Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

  Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker

  Science, Physics, Quantum

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